Did you know that rare illnesses aren’t as rare as we think? A “one in a million” diagnosis should not be out of the differential simply because a physician has never seen it or deems it unlikely.
I would still have much more limited mobility, potentially long gone, had I been satisfied with “horse” diagnoses (which were wrong).
This is why we call ourselves zebras in the rare disease community — instead of thinking horse when you hear hoof beats, there are 300 million plus people for whom you needed to think zebra.
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